Everything the Americans said about TikTok and more can be said about Twitter/X’s dangerous role in Canada.
Just stop using it!! Meaning government officials agencies etc. It blows my mind that any thing close to any level of government in Canada still has or uses an account there
They said such an app could be used for espionage and tracking down locations of federal employees and contractors.
But an operating system by an American corporation, and its office software, and authentication services, used by governments, business and citizens, is just fine.
I understand Twitter is used as a propaganda tool, but if we are also talking about espionage and tracking, then we should also pay attention to how many people and organizations are using companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google.
Yes please!
Wait! There are Canadians still using X? Off with their heads!!
Saskatchewan’s DUI hire is still using it. Moe-ron publishes all his public statements there, I personally cannot see them because I do not have an X account but they are shared on Reddit. Scotch Moe is doing less than the bare minimum when it comes to the Canada-US trade war. Slow Moe spent about a month down in DC prior to the official launch of the tariffs trying to talk to people to get it stopped or something. I am blanking on any of the other names for the premier of Saskatchewan.
I’m partial to Australia’s name for their own rotten Scott: Scummo.
Inciting violence!!!
Better to just revoke their citizenship and deport them. Make the X Canadians into ex-Canadians.
You are assuming decapitation would cause injury. I am pretty sure their brain body connection has been severed, as evidenced by their continued use of That Site. Thus any message from the nociceptors never gets past the neck anyway.
Do meta next!
Banning it just causes them to be the victim.
Put a massive tax on all of the multinational american leech corporations that control our media. Musk isn’t the cause of the problem, he’s a symptom of it.
You can’t think like this anymore. We are dealing with fascists. We are bordering Germany pre-WWII. Any nonviolent action that will give us an advantage in a theoretical conflict is necessary.
Who cares if they’re perceived as the victim? People will forget about Twitter within 6 months if it’s blocked, and during that time, the propaganda machine takes a hit.
I do believe we have a system for that now thought the digital tax act that JT and the liberals along with the NDP AND bloc pushed through. Allows us to levy taxes on tech companies and I think it was meant for exactly this
And meta, in fact all the American social apps.
It’s all just bots anyway. At least 80%
I wouldn’t shed a tear if this happened.
Shut down that shit!!! Fuck X.
What Twitter/X has done is no conduct that the Canadian people would tolerate if they were conducted by a corporation that was aligned with, say, the government of China
And yet, we did not ban TikTok. Nor did the Americans, when it came down to it. Perhaps they saw no prospect of such a law surviving the legal challenges that would rise against it.
As a general rule, the government can’t simply ban speech it dislikes. The government in Canada would perhaps have a marginally easier time of it with our less complete constitutional protection of the freedom of expression, but it would remain a bad idea, unlikely to succeed legally and very likely to do more harm than good if it did stand. It’s wrong to say that “no reasonable jurisprudence would defend” Canadians’ rights to visit the website and run the software of their choice when doing so is not in violation of any laws other than an arbitrary ban on one specific vendor who is disliked.
If social media firms have engaged in practices that should be illegal, then make those practices illegal. It will be discovered that once they are identified and specified, far more than just Facebook and Twitter will be affected. That is as it should be. The government of Canada should do what it can, and not attempt to do what it cannot. It should pass data privacy laws that make the worst practices of surveillance capitalist social media illegal in Canada. Legislate directly against the “data harvesting” and ad targeting.
And obviously, first of all, the government should stop using Twitter and Facebook, stop promoting them on government web sites, and thereby start leading people away from that shit instead of towards it. Here’s the petition again, which has 15000 signatures so far and lots of time left to sign it.
It is about more than speech.
It is a genuine threat to our nation.
So, the Great Firewall of Canada?
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Do it!
I’m all in favor of Canadians taking up the cause of helping their American (not-Trumplican) cousins.
Favour, we are in Canada gosh darn it!
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If you absolutely need to use a social media network like that choose another decentralized one, like Mastodon.
David Climenhaga is a journalist and trade union communicator who has worked in senior writing and editing positions with the Globe and Mail and the Calgary Herald
“Mean’s” in the headline.
Good Lord, I thought that was just the OP’s screwup. Nope, it’s on the actual source page. What a bummer.
Everyone seem’s to be doing that now and I hate it.
